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of a clear intergenerational break in the location choices of young men and women from a non-western origin compared to …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants … language, proxied by linguistic distance, are substitutes in the location decision. Based on individual level data from a … networks have a positive effect on the location decisions while the effect of linguistic distance is negative. We also find a …
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Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their … location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing … cost and to estimate the unobservable location features. Furthermore, we allow for different distributions of city …
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This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U … location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen African American moved from a Southern birth town to a destination …
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During the last few decades, aggregate wage growth has been very unevenly distributed across space in Germany. While wages in Southern German local labor markets rose by up to 28 log points, they increased only modestly or even declined in the north. Similar results apply to employment changes....
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. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the current production location discourage firms' relocation abroad. While …
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...
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heterogeneity makes such investments location-specific, in that some areas' characteristics will reward certain kinds of knowledge … more than others. This specificity - along with a period of exogenous location (before migration can be carried out …
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inflows generate substantial reallocations of natives across locations and occupations. Location movers are negatively …
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social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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